“America's game: has the snap, go, fling, of the American atmosphere - belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life”
Walt Whitman
“An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.”
Letitia Landon
“Grub, ho! now cried the landlord, flinging open a door, and in we went to breakfast.”
Herman Melville
“He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself the most”
Thomas Fuller
“Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and to-morrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.”
Charles Wolfe
“It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself.”
Chris Stevens
“I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.”